Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Pam Bondi became Florida’s Attorney General in 2011 after a campaign promising an emphasis on child sexual abuse and trafficking. She declared Florida would have zero tolerance for child predators. It’s odd, then, that she ignored Epstein while she was Attorney Genderal.
Les Hughey is the founder of Highlands Church in Scottsdale, Arizona. Highlands is a megachurch with around fifty staff. Before founding Highlands, he was a youth pastor at Scottsdale Bible Church and the First Baptist Church in Modesto, California. He left his position in Modesto after several allegations of sexual abuse of the girls and young women at the church emerged. The church sent him off without disclosing his actions to the congregation. He resigned from Highlands.
Stewart Ruch is a bishop in the Anglican Church of North America, the schismatic group that left the Episcopal Church in opposition to its “liberalism” in allowing the ordination of women, inclusion of LGBTIQA members, and gay marriage. He is facing an ecclesiastical (church) trial over allegations that he covered up serial sexual abuse of children.
Linda McMahon is Trump’s Secretary of Education who considers her job is to eliminate the Department of Education. Perhaps he thought she was well-suited for the job as she has been sued for negligence that allowed children to be sexually abused by an employee of World Wrestling Entertainment when she was the CEO. Notably, one of her responses to the suit is to claim she had no “duty of care” for the minor children employed as ring boys.
Nathan Rees was a professor at University of North Dakota in the Art and Design Department from 2013 to 2015. He was also a friend of Ray Holmberg. He received emails from Holmberg describing how he was grooming and sexually abusing a UND student in Prague. He did nothing.
Nicholas Hacker is a former North Dakota state senator and served on the North Dakota Board of Higher Education. In 2016 while Hacker was on the Board of Higher Ed, Senator Ray Holmberg sent Hacker an e-mail describing a sexual encounter he had in Taiwan. Hacker did not forward that email to report inappropriate, likely illegal trafficking until after the investigation into Holmberg began in 2022. That is six years of failing to report Holmberg’s disgraceful conduct.
Gail Priest was a co-founder of 99+1, a foster child advocacy organization that worked to address the very real crisis of foster children aging out and being dumped without resources or assistance in transitioning to independence. She founded the organization with her husband, Michael Priest who was arrested in 2024, charged with sexually abusing their adopted daughters. In March 2025, she was charged with child endangerment, child abuse, and child neglect after a six-month investigation.
Dave McCormick is the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, hoping to unseat Sen. Bob Casey. Previously, he was the CEO of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund. During his tenure, the fund drew criticism for investing in companies that produced fentanyl or that had ties do authoritarian regimes such as the Saudi royal family and the Chinese military.
Paul Rytting is the Director of Risk Management at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He’s very good at protecting the Church from accountability for its bishops and leadership sexually abusing children.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, often called the Mormon Church, has protected and shielded child predators repeatedly. In December, 2023, The Associated Press did a story exploring just one of the many times the LDS Church has intervened to protect predators. The case they write about is unique in having recordings of the church’s efforts.